1st Edition
The Coloniality of Modern Taste A Critique of Gastronomic Thought
By Zilkia Janer
Copyright 2023
184 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes the coloniality of the concept of taste that gastronomy constructed and normalized as modern. It shows how gastronomy’s engagement with rationalist and aesthetic thought, and with colonial and capitalist structures, led to the desensualization, bureaucratization and racialization of its conceptualization of taste.
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Introduction: What Is Gastronomy?
1. The Narrative of Gastronomic Progress
2. Desensualizing Taste
3. Bureaucratizing Taste
4. Racializing Taste
5. Taste, Otherwise
Conclusion: The Gustatory Logic of Consumer Capitalism
Biography
Zilkia Janer is a Professor of Global Studies and Geography at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
